Robert Browning Quotes

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• Time'swheelsrunsbackor stops: Potterand clayendure.
• A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: See all, nor be afraid!
• There is no truer truth obtainable by Man than comes of music
• Of what I call God, And fools call Nature.
• But there are times when patience proves at fault.
• Once more on my adventure brave and new.
• Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth.
• I.. know what I do, and am unmoved by men's blame, or their praise either.
• White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so; life's business being just the terrible choice.
• No, when the fight begins within himself, / A man's worth something.
• Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!
• Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!
• I would have rummaged, ransacked at the word; Those old odd corners of an empty heart; For remnants of dim love the long disused, And…
• Grow old along with me the best is yet to be.
• This is our master, famous, calm, and dead, Borne on our shoulders.
• There are those who believe something, and therefore will tolerate nothing; and on the other hand, those who tolerate everything, because they believe nothing
• Grow old with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, For which, the first is made.
• I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.
• For life, with all its yields of joy and woe, And hope and fear, - believe the aged friend - Is just a chance o'…
• I have dared and done, for my resting-place is found, The C major of this life: so, now I will try to sleep

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